Siren Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CDE FG HI J KLMCCL NLOBP QBRSTU H| I became a criminal when I fell in love | A |
| Before that I was a waitress | B |
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| I didn't want to go to Chicago with you | C |
| I wanted to marry you I wanted | D |
| Your wife to suffer | E |
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| I wanted her life to be like a play | F |
| In which all the parts are sad parts | G |
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| Does a good person | H |
| Think this way I deserve | I |
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| Credit for my courage | J |
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| I sat in the dark on your front porch | K |
| Everything was clear to me | L |
| If your wife wouldn't let you go | M |
| That proved she didn't love you | C |
| If she loved you | C |
| Wouldn't she want you to be happy | L |
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| I think now | N |
| If I felt less I would be | L |
| A better person I was | O |
| A good waitress | B |
| I could carry eight drinks | P |
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| I used to tell you my dreams | Q |
| Last night I saw a woman sitting in a dark bus | B |
| In the dream she's weeping the bus she's on | R |
| Is moving away With one hand | S |
| She's waving the other strokes | T |
| An egg carton full of babies | U |
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| The dream doesn't rescue the maiden | H |
Louise Gluck
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